1.\" Copyright (c) 1986, 1991 The Regents of the University of California. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 13.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 14.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 15.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 16.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 17.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 18.\" without specific prior written permission. 19.\" 20.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 21.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 23.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" @(#)slattach.8 6.4 (Berkeley) 3/16/91 33.\" 34.Dd March 16, 1991 35.Dt SLATTACH 8 36.Os BSD 4.3 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm slattach 39.Nd attach serial lines as network interfaces 40.Sh SYOPNSIS 41.Nm Slattach 42.Ar ttyname Op Ar baudrate 43.Sh DESCRIPTION 44.Nm Slattach 45is used to assign a tty line to a network interface, 46and to define the network source and destination addresses. 47The following operands are supported by 48.Nm slattach : 49.Bl -tag -width Ar 50.It Ar ttyname 51Specifies the name of the tty device. 52.Ar Ttyname 53should be a string of the form 54.Ql ttyXX , 55or 56.Ql /dev/ttyXX . 57.It Ar baudrate 58Specifies the speed of the connection. If not specified, the 59default of 9600 is used. 60.El 61.Pp 62Only the super-user may attach a network interface. 63.Pp 64To detach the interface, use 65.Dq Li ifconfig interface-name down 66after killing off the 67.Nm slattach 68process. 69.Ar Interface-name 70is the name that is shown by 71.Xr netstat 1 72.Sh EXAMPLES 73.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact 74slattach ttyh8 75slattach /dev/tty01 4800 76.Ed 77.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 78Messages indicating the specified interface does not exit, the 79requested address is unknown, the user is not privileged and 80tried to alter an interface's configuration. 81.Sh SEE ALSO 82.Xr netstat 1 , 83.Xr netintro 4 , 84.Xr ifconfig 8 , 85.Xr rc 8 86.Sh HISTORY 87The 88.Nm 89command appeared in 90.Bx 4.3 . 91